Letters to the Editor: January-February 1984

Standing Up for the Helpless... Perplexed & Disappointed... State of Confusion... Science Presupposes Faith... Ill-Conceived & Trivial... Battle Lines Shifting... Farewell!... Rejoicing... The Luxury of Infighting... Sorry... Delighted

Conjugal Intimacy

IN LIGHT OF CREATION, FALL & REDEMPTION

Marshall Fightlin

Sacred Scripture and the mystical tradition in the Church present our redemption by Christ in terms of a husband-wife relationship.

Blood, Water, Wine - Sacrament - Paradox Regained

THREE POEMS

J.R. Hochstedt Jr.

Can a Political Conservative Be a Christian?

A QUESTION OF PRIORITIES

James J. Thompson Jr.

The Christian conservative must not subsume his religion under his politics and thereby pervert a timeless Gospel into an ideological weapon.

Canticle

A POEM

Katherine Brown

On Women’s Liberation

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

The significance of the biological distinctions between men and women, amplified by centuries of religiously and culturally encouraged differences, are not to be altogether scorned.

A Stage Exists Someplace

A POEM

James Hunter

A Coming “Crackdown” in the U.S.?

VATICAN WATCH

James Hitchcock

Any serious effort to free American Roman Catholicism from the influence of neo-modernism will involve a confrontation with some of the bishops.

Re-evaluating Chesterton

Arthur Livingston

Alzina Stone Dale wrote the first of many books re-eval­uating G.K.C. and elevating him to his deserved place in English letters.

Television’s Impact

Wightman Weese

TV is an effective teacher of a worldview diametrically opposed to the Christian worldview.

Briefly Reviewed: January-February 1984

The Broken Image... The Mystery of the Ordinary... A Whirlwind Named Tim... The Message of the Bible: An Orthodox Christian Perspective... The Continuity of Christian Doctrine... Spirituality for Ministry